Sunday 30th December 2018
THE FEAST of THE HOLY FAMILY Sung Mass 10.15am . Said Masses at 8.30am and 6pm. at St. Peter's Catholic Church SS9 4BX Home to the Southend Ordinariate Mission Group Pastor & Parish Priest - Fr Jeff Woolnough _______________________________________________________ Our True Home: Scott Hahn Reflects on the Feast of the Holy Family Download Audio File The Holy Family, Juan Simón Gutiérrez, 1680 Readings: Sirach 3:2–6 , 12–14 Psalm 128:1–5 Colossians 3:12–21 Luke 2:41–52 Why did Jesus choose to become a baby born of a mother and father and to spend all but His last years living in an ordinary human family? In part, to reveal God’s plan to make all people live as one “holy family” in His Church (see 2 Corinthians 6:16–18 ). In the Holy Family of Jesus, Mary and Joseph, God reveals our true home. We’re to live as His children, “chosen ones, holy and beloved,” as the Fi